Military personnel are being taught survival skills.
Preparedness is vital to survival. Basic, intermediate, and advanced level skills will help you become a better survivor, and it is much simpler and easier to learn them before the apocalypse. Plus, they are surprisingly helpful before the S-H-T-F as well.
This guide will split into three difficulty levels. As a complete novice, it is advisable to try gato in as many 'basic skills' as you can before moving up to more complicated skills. For example, mastering CPR before moving on to emergency surgery is probably a good idea. Most of these skills are available for free or cheap at local colleges and other 'educational' establishments.
Basic Skills[]
Combat-
-Skills at arms (basic firearm safety and maintenance)
-Basic marksmanship
Medical
-CPR
-Basic drug administration (simple painkillers, antibiotics, etc.)
-Basic wound care (bandages, etc.)
Engineering & Construction
-Basic vehicle maintenance (changing oil, etc.)
-Basic carpentry (reinforcing doors, etc.)
-Basic electrical skills (changing fuses, locating circuit breakers, etc.)
Outdoor Skills
-Creating a fire in any way possible
-Locating or making a crude shelter
-Basic understanding of survival in the outdoors (hypothermia, animal bites, etc
-Basic water purification skills (understanding water purification tablet use, etc.)
General Skills
-Ability to drive
-Knowledge of the local area
-Knowledge of how to swim
-rudimentary lockpicking
These skills should make you a capable survivor, able to survive short-term and medium-term situations as long as you are undisturbed by hostile elements.
Intermediate Skills[]
Combat
-Knowledge of a wide range of common firearms
-Intermediate marksmanship
-Ability to diagnose and repair common firearms
-Basic ability of how to use and maintain a bow and crossbow
-Basic hand-to-hand and melee weapon combat
Medical
-Advanced life support
-Basic nursing skills
-Administering of drugs (oral, inhalation, intradermal, intramuscular, and subcutaneous)
-Good knowledge of anatomy and physiology
Engineering & Construction
-Ability to diagnose and repair common vehicle faults
-Good understanding of internal combustion engines
Outdoor Skills
-Knowledge of edible plants and fungi
-Ability to start a fire with minimal assistance from tools like lighters or matches
-Basic knowledge of how to cultivate
-Knowledge of dangerous flora and fauna
-Basic knowledge of how to hunt for food
General Skills
-Knowledge of how to read and understand a map and compass
-Knowledge of how to safely contact others quietly and quickly
-Knowledge of how to swim well
-Basic knowledge of parkour or free running
-Basic lockpicking abilities.
These are the skills that any long-term survivor should at least have.
Advanced Skills[]
Combat
-Knowledge of most firearms
-Professional marksmanship
-Advanced knowledge of ballistic weapons
-Ability to diagnose and repair most weapons
-Proficient in the use and maintenance of a bow or crossbow
-Advanced knowledge of melee weapons
-Professionally trained in melee combat (Kenjutsu, swordsmanship, martial arts)
Medical
-Professionally trained in medicine
-Ability to perform advanced medical procedures (Resetting or removing a broken bone, performing surgery, etc.)
Engineering & Construction
-Ability to operate and repair heavy machinery
-Advanced carpentry (ability to construct fully functional, efficient barricades and fortifications)
Outdoor Skills
-Knowledge of multiple ways to start a fire
-Advanced knowledge of how to hunt for food
-Advanced knowledge of how to cultivate
General Skills
-Knowledge of how to swim extraordinarily well
-Advanced knowledge of parkour or free running
- Advanced lockpicking
Possessing all of these skills would make one an extremely well-off survivor. It would be recommended that one acquires the skills of only two categories, as it would make one an expert if they mastered all of the skills in one type.